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Ryōgen and Mount Hiei : Japanese Tendai in the tenth century /
"Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai school from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to its emergence as the most powerful and influential school of Japanese Buddhism in the last half of the tenth century - a position it would maintai...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;
no. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ryōgen's place in the history of the Tendai School
- The early history of factionalism within the Tendai School: from Saichō through the mid-tenth century
- Ryōgen's early years
- Ryōgen's rise to prominence
- Ryōgen and the Fujiwaras: patronage and esoteric Buddhism ritual
- The Ōwa debates
- Ryōgen's appointment's as head of the Tendai School and to the office of monastic affairs
- The significance of Ryōgen's revival of the examination system
- Rebuilding the Tendai establishment on Mount Hiei
- Ryōgen as Zasu: financing the spread of Tendai influence
- Factionalism and Ryōgen's efforts to control the order
- Ryōgen and the role of nuns in ninth- and tenth-century Japan
- Epilogue: Ryōgen's posthumous career.